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Jan Martens: any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones
A stripped down but hyperkinetic composition invokes a collective will
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Marion Darova & Martina Apostolova: WO MAN
Strict forms and unsettling imagery combine to dissolve gender identity
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Mulholland Drive
Dance can slip through the nets of convention and identity – just like the films of David Lynch
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Dance classes through the screen
Springback experiences of what works (or doesn’t) as online class participants
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Ann Van den Broek: Creating Joy
A polished kinetic, aural and videographic walk around joy, guided by Flemish choreographer Ann Van den Broek
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Present futures
Going digital in 2020 has been a natural step for a festival founded to hybridise physical and virtual realms
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Guest episode: dis[]tanz podcast
Observing and considering how a performance-protest in Athens came to inhabit both the real and the online worlds
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Hamid Ben Mahi: Chronic(s) 2
Revisiting a work twenty years on, hip hop dance artist Hamid Ben Mahi finds that the fundamental things still apply, as time goes by
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Beyond the visual: Johanna Hedva’s Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain
As live arts migrate to the screen, Claire Lefèvre wonders whether a book might more fully register and reawaken the aura of live performance
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Thessaloniki Cinedance International 2020
In a city with a reputation for film festivals, the third Thessaloniki Cinedance International festival focuses on artistic crossover
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Circulating artists, defunded infrastructures
Don’t just blame Covid for this crisis: restructuring the cultural field had already led to more artists and fewer resources
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Ultima Vez: Hands do not touch your precious Me
An online premiere from Wim Vandekeybus, Olivier de Sagazan and Charo Calvo that ventures into mythic worlds
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Screening times
As Covid has brought screened dance and screendance into close proximity, four screendance curators look at the dynamics between them
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Wanjiru Kamuyu, An Immigrant’s Story; Smaïl Kanouté, Never Twenty One
Edgy performances at the edge of Paris that take us beyond our own horizons
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Teresa Vittucci, Michael Turinsky, Claire Vivianne Sobottke: We Bodies
We Bodies is an hour-long performative question on monsterhood, exorcism, domination, docility – and more
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Life sentences: on reviewing and renewing
Can performance reviews escape from the sentences of the courtroom or the classroom, and live a little more?
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Visible and erased: the case of the ‘Alzheimer’s ballerina’
What does the viral video of a former dancer with Alzheimer’s disease suggest about the dancer, about disease, about us?
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Giri/Haji
The BBC/Netflix crime drama Giri/Haji is another sign of mainstream media turning to contemporary dance for inspiration and innovation
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Adrien M & Claire B: Faire corps
A rapturous fusion of sensation and motion, imagination and engineering, and body with light
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Marcos Morau: Sonoma, Surrealism and me
Threads of history – artistic, cultural, personal – lie beyond the exuberant images and costumes of Marcos Morau’s new work Sonoma
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The leap into the abyss and the need to heal again
Anastasio Koukoutas spoke to some recent dance graduates to find out how they feel about their future, in the face of the coronavirus crisis
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Dancing virtually into the London Film Festival
Alongside dance documentaries, the new LFF Expanded strand is taking steps into virtual dancing
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Jan Martens: any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones
A stripped down but hyperkinetic composition invokes a collective will
-
Marion Darova & Martina Apostolova: WO MAN
Strict forms and unsettling imagery combine to dissolve gender identity
-
Mulholland Drive
Dance can slip through the nets of convention and identity – just like the films of David Lynch
-
Dance classes through the screen
Springback experiences of what works (or doesn’t) as online class participants
-
Ann Van den Broek: Creating Joy
A polished kinetic, aural and videographic walk around joy, guided by Flemish choreographer Ann Van den Broek
-
Present futures
Going digital in 2020 has been a natural step for a festival founded to hybridise physical and virtual realms
-
Guest episode: dis[]tanz podcast
Observing and considering how a performance-protest in Athens came to inhabit both the real and the online worlds
-
Hamid Ben Mahi: Chronic(s) 2
Revisiting a work twenty years on, hip hop dance artist Hamid Ben Mahi finds that the fundamental things still apply, as time goes by
-
Beyond the visual: Johanna Hedva’s Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain
As live arts migrate to the screen, Claire Lefèvre wonders whether a book might more fully register and reawaken the aura of live performance
-
Thessaloniki Cinedance International 2020
In a city with a reputation for film festivals, the third Thessaloniki Cinedance International festival focuses on artistic crossover
-
Circulating artists, defunded infrastructures
Don’t just blame Covid for this crisis: restructuring the cultural field had already led to more artists and fewer resources
-
Ultima Vez: Hands do not touch your precious Me
An online premiere from Wim Vandekeybus, Olivier de Sagazan and Charo Calvo that ventures into mythic worlds
-
Screening times
As Covid has brought screened dance and screendance into close proximity, four screendance curators look at the dynamics between them
-
Wanjiru Kamuyu, An Immigrant’s Story; Smaïl Kanouté, Never Twenty One
Edgy performances at the edge of Paris that take us beyond our own horizons
-
Teresa Vittucci, Michael Turinsky, Claire Vivianne Sobottke: We Bodies
We Bodies is an hour-long performative question on monsterhood, exorcism, domination, docility – and more
-
Life sentences: on reviewing and renewing
Can performance reviews escape from the sentences of the courtroom or the classroom, and live a little more?
-
Visible and erased: the case of the ‘Alzheimer’s ballerina’
What does the viral video of a former dancer with Alzheimer’s disease suggest about the dancer, about disease, about us?
-
Giri/Haji
The BBC/Netflix crime drama Giri/Haji is another sign of mainstream media turning to contemporary dance for inspiration and innovation
-
Adrien M & Claire B: Faire corps
A rapturous fusion of sensation and motion, imagination and engineering, and body with light
-
Marcos Morau: Sonoma, Surrealism and me
Threads of history – artistic, cultural, personal – lie beyond the exuberant images and costumes of Marcos Morau’s new work Sonoma
-
The leap into the abyss and the need to heal again
Anastasio Koukoutas spoke to some recent dance graduates to find out how they feel about their future, in the face of the coronavirus crisis
-
Dancing virtually into the London Film Festival
Alongside dance documentaries, the new LFF Expanded strand is taking steps into virtual dancing
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